listening back to Wysh waxing rhapsodic about old school ESPN hockey coverage got me curious about who was was working the tournament for ESPN this year.
announcing USA games (and only those I guess? not team NA?), semi finals and finals: Barry Melrose and Steve Levy
all other games: John Buccigross and Kevin Weekes, w/Leah Hextall wherever they let analysts in Toronto stand at ice level.
In studio analysis, Adnan Virk, Buccigross, Brett Hull, and Chris Chelios.
I tried looking for an announcement of the Canadian broadcast team - I know it's on Sportsnet for prelims and CBC for semifinals and finals, but either they haven't bothered announcing a team cause it's the usual people, or I just couldn't find it.
ESPN international is going to show the games in other English and Spanish-speaking countries, and again my level of interest wasn't sufficient to try to find out whether they will actually bother to find spanish language commentators or translators or what. Viasat has the games in Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark.
Re: World Cup of Hockey
https://www.nhl.com/news/espn-announcers-for-world-cup-of-hockey/c-281068544
announcing USA games (and only those I guess? not team NA?), semi finals and finals: Barry Melrose and Steve Levy
all other games: John Buccigross and Kevin Weekes, w/Leah Hextall wherever they let analysts in Toronto stand at ice level.
In studio analysis, Adnan Virk, Buccigross, Brett Hull, and Chris Chelios.
I tried looking for an announcement of the Canadian broadcast team - I know it's on Sportsnet for prelims and CBC for semifinals and finals, but either they haven't bothered announcing a team cause it's the usual people, or I just couldn't find it.
ESPN international is going to show the games in other English and Spanish-speaking countries, and again my level of interest wasn't sufficient to try to find out whether they will actually bother to find spanish language commentators or translators or what. Viasat has the games in Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark.